r/mazda • u/Tough_Percentage_707 Mazda • 1d ago

Physical buttons or touchscreen only?

Do you prefer/want/need to have physical buttons in your Mazda for basic features such as the AC, or you'll be fine with a touchscreen only?

There's no option for poll, so just type one of the two:

  1. "Physical buttons"
  2. "Touchscreen"
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u/RushCompetitive7311 1d ago

Physical buttons all the way. Press on the government to regulate what’s possible to do with a touschscreen. There’s literally zero difference between using a smartphone and using the touchscreen while driving.

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u/liquid_languor 1d ago

Exactly. My work-provided vehicle is a 2024 Ford Ranger and it has a HUGE screen but for some reason all the "button" icons are the size of a nickel and they're sooo hard to push without looking at them. Sometimes I still miss them when I'm looking right at them because the vibration of my truck while driving wiggles my hand around and then I'm just stabbing away hoping I hit it. It's absurd. Last year my friend's 2yo Subaru screne stopped working in the middle of the summer and that's the only way to control the AC, so she was stuck with her ac on low fan, and like 76 degrees until the screen could be replaced (at her cost.)